About Rick Martin

Rick Martin

Rick Martin lives in Tokyo where he writes about technology in Japan, China, and around Asia. After writing full-time for TechInAsia from 2011 to January 2013, he moved on to pastures new at The Bridge. He can be reached via his website, 1Rick.com

NTT Docomo (NYSE:DCM) today announced a number of new mobile devices for the fall, including two 7-inch tablets from Samsung and NEC which we wrote about earlier. But the standout of the three smartph...

Japanese mobile carrier NTT Docomo (NYSE:DCM) held a small press event today to show off a few new mobile devices. Perhaps the most notable among them, I thought, was the NEC Medias Tab UL N-08D. This...

Mobile analytics firm Flurry has released some new numbers that indicate how the global smartphone market is changing, showing which nations are have the most iOS and Android install bases, and which ...

Our readers may remember a few months back when we wrote about artist Jed Henry, who creates amazing digital pictures of iconic Nintendo game characters using traditional Japanese ukiyo-e (traditional...

Revolution Analytics, a commercial software and services provider for statistical computing (specifically the open source R programming language), recently announced the opening of an office in Singap...

Readers may recall last year when we wrote about Japanese photo app Snapeee, which was developed by Mind Palette and funded by CyberAgent Ventures. The service has just released version 2.0 of its app...

Back in January we wrote about how Chinese search engine Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) was integrating more travel features into its ‘Box Computing’ services leading up to Chinese New Year. The company just gav...

Japanese social gaming giant GREE (TYO:3632) has made some new developments in its expansion into North America, with some key developer partnerships for his mobile social gaming platform to help soli...

Here’s an interesting graphic from Roman Nedielka which points to Japan as a world leader in the mobile industry [1], but notes that it’s a leader that is currently undergoing a shift of sorts. He poi...

Here’s a fun little application from Quan Inc which aims to help you make your MMS and iMessages a little bit more cute. Sticker Maker MMS (aka MMS Stamp) improves upon its previous sticker maker with...

Taking taxis can be a pain, but one location-based smartphone app is hoping that it can help Singaporeans make that experience a little more interesting, and more importantly, a whole lot cheaper. It’...

We always enjoy hearing from the folks over at Umeng, who have a plethora of facts and figures from monitoring the mobile wars in China. Its latest Q2 2012 report (on slideshare, pdf is here) is espec...

FeelPress is a fun social sharing app from Japan-based imonomi inc which launches today. It’s a clever service that’s dedicated to communicating and journaling a wide range of your emotions. The start...

NHN Japan has been so busy with its Line app/platform recently that we can hardly keep up with the updates. In fact if we tried, this would very quickly become a ‘Line’ blog. The most recent one is to...

Korean news agency Yonhap news is reporting that South Korea’s smart phone user base is about to surpass the 30 million mark. The report cites industry sources [1] saying that the country’s local tele...

Yesterday Japanese social networking giant Mixi (TYO:2121) went live with a teaser page for a new subscription-based e-commerce service. It’s called Petite Jeté, and it will be targeting women in thei...

China-based Maxthon, recently released its desktop browser for Mac OS X. And now the company has followed it up by releasing an iPhone Maxthon browser, and has incorporated some interesting features. ...

A few moments ago, Rovio launched a new Angry Birds collaboration for its Facebook game with rock band Green Day, who played the SummerSonic festival here in Japan this past weekend. Perhaps the most ...